Researchers at Yale University believe that though diet-conscious people restrict their sugar intake, many of them ignore the fact that soft drinks are also loaded with the sugars.
The studies analyzed the eating habits of nearly 100,000 women over an eight year period of time and came to a conclusion that women who drank one or more sodas per day were are a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who drank less than one soda per month. This study did not include non-sugary sodas such as diet.
Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut recommended that soft drink consumption should be curbed on a population level as it is strongly supported by the available scientific evidence.
"I believe schools should be a commercial-free zone and that beverages that are contributing to ill health should not be sold there," Brownell said. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and other signs, as distinct from a single disease or condition. Experts have categorized soft drinks as the biggest causes for obesity in world.
Diabetes can cause many complications. Acute complications may occur if the disease is not adequately controlled. Serious long-term complications include cardiovascular disease, chronic renal failure, retinal damage, nerve damage and micro vascular damage, which may cause erectile dysfunction impotence and poor healing.
Adequate treatment of diabetes, as well as increased emphasis on blood pressure control and lifestyle factors (such as smoking and keeping a healthy body weight), may improve the risk profile of most aforementioned complications.
